Johanesburg's TransMilenio nears completion

Well, I think that in terms of capacity and infrastructure TransMilenio is the next major forward evolution after Curitiba. Ottawa for example was a sideways maybe even backwards step.

I know that Bogota is one of the cities that the South African delegations most visited while they were researching the system (I even met a group of them while there myself). I am not trying to take away from Curitiba but the Rea Vaya is really far closer to TransMilenio than it is to Curitiba.

Really if were to be totally objective I would have had the title say "(phase 1 of) Johannesburg's BRT Nears Completion" - but BRT isn't really a widely understood term, while many visitors to Colombia have likely at least seen TransMilenio - and this is a Colombian forum

bam_m I am afraid that I do not follow your post, can you expand on that?

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I believe it is a public body that is developing (and owning) the system, and if they followed a similar model it will be operated by a P3 agreement.

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Ah South Africa - can't be a nice place at all with news stories and stastics we hear/see. Not like Colombia, which everyone back home regards as a top notch destination.

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Bogota's system was based on Curitiba, but it is the "state of the art" in Bus Rapid Transit, so most cities copy the Bogota model and not the Curitiba model, mostly because of its higher capacity similar to that of most metros around the world.

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I just wish "most cities" included north american ones. North American BRT is dreadful - if it looked like TM people would actually want it.

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